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39-449: DIFF 2024 was held April 25-May 1, 2024. DIFF 2023 was held April 28-May 5, 2023. The 2023 Dallas International Film Festival was cited by Travel + Leisure magazine in naming Dallas among the "12 Best Places to Travel in April 2023". The festival was also cited by MovieMaker magazine in naming Dallas among the "Best Places to Live and Work as a MovieMaker 2023". Since its inception,

78-500: A narrative film ( motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term feature film originally referred to the main, full-length film in a cinema program that included a short film and often a newsreel . Matinee programs, especially in the US and Canada, in general, also included cartoons , at least one weekly serial and, typically,

117-609: A different Passion Play in May 1903, The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ , in 32 parts, totaling 44 minutes. Defined by length, the first dramatic feature film was the Australian 60-minute film The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906). Similarly, the first European feature was the 90-minute film L'Enfant prodigue (France, 1907), although that was an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for

156-459: A feature's running time is 60 minutes or longer. The Centre National de la Cinématographie in France defines it as a 35 mm film longer than 1,600 metres (5,200 ft), which is exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds for sound films . The term feature film came into use to refer to the main film presented in a cinema and the one which was promoted or advertised. The term was used to distinguish

195-415: A list of the world's top 500 hotels, and America's Favorite Cities, where readers rank U.S. cities in different categories. Travel + Leisure magazine was purchased from American Express Publishing by Time Inc. (which would later be acquired by Meredith Corporation ) on October 1, 2013. In 2021, Wyndham Destinations acquired Travel + Leisure from Meredith Corporation. The Travel + Leisure magazine

234-457: A second feature-length film on weekends. The first narrative feature film was the 60-minute The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906, Australia). Other early feature films include Les Misérables (1909, U.S.), L'Inferno , Defence of Sevastopol , The Adventures of Pinocchio (1911), Oliver Twist (American version), Oliver Twist (British version), Richard III , From the Manger to

273-593: A subsidiary of IAC , with trademark rights belonging to Travel + Leisure Co. , a timeshare company that licenses its trademark to IAC. Its main competitor is Condé Nast Traveler . Initially published in 1937 as U.S. Camera and Travel, the magazine later assumed the name Travel + Leisure in 1971. The predecessor titles focused on travel photography. Still, the name change signaled a shift toward travel coverage in general. The magazine specializes in leisure travel and often features articles written by novelists, poets, artists, designers, and non-travel journalists. It

312-451: Is known for its travel photography and covers featuring models lounging in upscale environments. Its World's Best Awards, an annual reader survey rating airports, cities, cruise ships, hotels, and islands, have been announced every August since 1995. Votes added by the magazine's readers are taken into consideration to recognize and give out the awards. Other annual features include the T+L 500,

351-453: Is published independently by Dotdash Meredith under a long-term license agreement. Travel + Leisure Co. sells rights to manufacture, market, and sell products bearing the Travel + Leisure trademark to licensees. Current and defunct international editions: Feature film A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature ), also called a theatrical film , is

390-489: The "12 Best Places to Travel in April 2023". The festival was also cited by MovieMaker magazine in naming Dallas among the "Best Places to Live and Work as a MovieMaker 2023". Travel %2B Leisure Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City , New York . Published 12 times a year, it has 4.8 million readers, according to its corporate media kit. It is published by Dotdash Meredith ,

429-507: The 13th Dallas International Film Festival powered by Capital One was held from April 11 through April 18, 2019. The festival screened more than 130 films from more than 35 countries, including five world premieres, one U.S. premiere, 37 Texas premieres, and 15 Dallas premieres. World premieres included: After So Many Days, El Corazón de Bolívar ( Bolivar's Hear t), Hurdle, The Pursuit, and This World Won't Break. 2020 The 2020 Dallas International Film Festival as an in-person event

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468-556: The 7th annual festival was held from April 4 through April 14, 2013, and presented more than 160 features , documentaries , shorts , and student films from 28 countries. 2014 The 8th annual festival was held from April 3 through April 13, 2014. 2015 In 2015, the 9th annual festival was held from April 9 to 19, 2015., and featured 165 films. The opening night film was I'll See You in My Dreams , starring Blythe Danner , who

507-487: The Angelika Film Center and showcased multiple films from the festival. Amber Heard received the inaugural DALLAS Shining Star Award. Dallas Star Award Recipients were cinematographer Wally Pfister, Pixar animation wizard Brad Bird, writer/director John Lee Hancock and writer/director Frank Darabont . The 4th annual festival was held from April 8 to April 18, 2010. 2011 In 2011, the 5th annual festival

546-524: The Corbett-Jeffries Fight and The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight (1899). Some consider the 100-minute The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight to be the first documentary feature film, but it is more accurately characterized as a sports program as it included the full unedited boxing match. In 1900, the documentary film Army Life was produced by Robert Paul . It was a programme of 33 short films, with a total running time of around 75 minutes, following

585-752: The Cross , Cleopatra (1912), Quo Vadis? (1913), Cabiria (1914) and The Birth of a Nation (1915). The notion of how long a feature film should be has varied according to time and place. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute , a feature film runs for more than 40 minutes, while the Screen Actors Guild asserts that

624-622: The Dallas International Film Festival has contributed more than $ 1M in filmmaker awards, brought more than 2,000 filmmakers to Dallas , and screened more than 2,500 films from more than 50 countries. DIFF, established as Dallas Film Society, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2006. 2007 The Dallas International Film Festival began in 2007 as the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. The festival

663-443: The Manger to the Cross , Cleopatra and Richard III (all 1912). Actor Frederick Warde starred in some of these adaptations. The first Asian feature was Japan 's The Life Story of Tasuke Shiobara (1912), the first Indian feature was Raja Harishchandra (1913), China 's first feature film was Zhang Shichuan's Nan Fu Nan Qi (1913), the first South American feature was Brazil 's O Crime dos Banhados (1913), and

702-553: The Performing and Visual Arts , Texas Theatre , South Dallas Cultural Center, and 4DWN Skate Park. 2023 The 2023 edition of the Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF) was held April 28-May 5, 2023, at Violet Crown Cinema in the West Village district of Dallas. 2024 DIFF 2023 was held April 28-May 5, 2023. The 2023 Dallas International Film Festival was cited by Travel + Leisure magazine in naming Dallas among

741-472: The U.S. and Japan alternated as leaders in the quantity of feature film production. Since 1971, the country with the highest feature output has been India, which produces a thousand films in more than twelve Indian languages each year. In 1927, Warner Bros. released the first feature-length film with sound, The Jazz Singer , whose audio track was recorded with a proprietary technology called Vitaphone . The film's success persuaded other studios to go to

780-522: The United States and France, but were released in individual (short film) scenes. This left exhibitors the option of playing them alone, to view an incomplete combination of some films, or to run them all together as a short film series. Early features were mostly documentary-style films of noteworthy events. Some of the earliest feature-length productions were films of boxing matches, such as The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), Reproduction of

819-614: The Wind . Digital Video (or DV) has quickly changed how most films are made. First used to create special effects and animated movies, digital cameras became more common on film sets in the late 1990s. In 2002, George Lucas ' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones became the first major studio film shot primarily on digital video. The ability to instantly play back footage and quickly transfer footage to computers for editing helped to speed up post-production time. Digital film making

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858-422: The considerable expense of adding microphones to their sets, and scramble to start producing their own " talkies ". One of the next major advancements made in movie production was color film . Even before color was a possibility in movies, early film makers were interested in how color could enhance their stories. Early techniques included hand tinting : painting each frame by hand. Cheaper and more widely used

897-513: The direction of artistic director James Faust with an abbreviated in-person event from October 8 through October 10, 2021, at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Cedars. 2022 In 2022, the Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF) returned as a seven-day festival from October 14 through October 20. In its 16th year, DIFF presented screenings at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Cedars, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center , Booker T. Washington High School for

936-419: The first African feature was South Africa 's De Voortrekkers (1916). By 1915, over 600 feature films were produced annually in the United States. It is often incorrectly cited that The Birth of a Nation (1915) was the first American feature film. The most prolific year of U.S. feature production was 1921, with 682 releases; the lowest number of releases was in 1963, with 213. Between 1922 and 1970,

975-453: The longer film from the short films (referred to as shorts) typically presented before the main film, such as newsreels , serials , animated cartoons , live-action comedies and documentaries . There was no sudden increase in the running times of films to the present-day definitions of feature-length; the "featured" film on a film program in the early 1910s gradually expanded from two to three to four reels. Early features had been produced in

1014-413: The name of the festival was changed to the Dallas International Film Festival after the contract with AFI expired. The 11-day 2010 Dallas International Film Festival, ran April 8-18th, its full schedule encompassing 153 features and shorts making up a total of 170 screenings. Opening Night has a unique look too, as the festival presented not just a single opening night film, but instead took over 8 screens at

1053-526: The screen , Les Misérables , came from France in 1909. The first Russian feature was Defence of Sevastopol in 1911. Early Italian features included L'Inferno (1911), Quo Vadis? , The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) and Cabiria (1914). The first UK features were the documentary With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), filmed in Kinemacolor and Oliver Twist (also 1912). The first American features were Oliver Twist , From

1092-624: The training of British soldiers. Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth (1901) ran for 35 minutes, "six times longer than any previous Australian film", and has been called "possibly the first feature-length documentary made in Australia". American company S. Lubin released a Passion Play titled Lubin's Passion Play in January 1903 in 31 parts, totaling about 60 minutes. The French company Pathé Frères released

1131-728: Was Stuart Townsend 's Battle in Seattle . Mickey Rooney attended a presentation of the 70th anniversary of Boys Town . Helen Hunt , Mickey Rooney , Charlize Theron and Todd Wagner each received the AFI DALLAS Star Award. Director Chris Wedge received the Tex Avery Animation Award, which honors lifetime achievement in animation filmmaking. Special guests included Robert DeNiro, Barry Levinson, Art Linson, Keke Palmer, Michelle Rodriguez, Stuart Townsend amongst others. 2009 The 3rd annual festival

1170-548: Was toning : dying the film in a single color, used in many films in the 1920s. The film processing lab Technicolor developed the Three-Tone coloring technique that became the standard for color film. It was a complex, time consuming, and expensive process that many movie studios were not eager to try. One of the early adopters of the three-strip process was Disney . Some of the most notable films Technicolor processed with three-strip were The Wizard of Oz and Gone with

1209-423: Was cofounded by advertising executive Liener Temerlin and Deep Ellum Film Festival founder Michael Cain with the intention that "film should be placed on the same pedestal as all of the other arts". The Festival was held March 22 to April 1, 2007. The Opening Night Gala film was Steven Sawalich’s “Music Within” and Sarah Polley’s directorial debut, “Away From Her,” closed the fest. The newly inaugurated AFI Dallas Star

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1248-510: Was given a big boost in 2005 when the Digital Cinema Initiative created a guide for manufacturers to create a universal standard, to make the technologies more compatible with each other and more user friendly. Shooting movies on digital also led to new technologies for distributing films. Titan A.E. , released in 2000, was the first feature film to be released for viewing over the internet. Digital distribution changed

1287-476: Was held from April 14 through April 24, 2016. The opening night film was The Land , starring Erykah Badu . The Dallas Star Award was presented to cinematographer Ed Lachman and the inaugural L.M. Kit Carson Maverick Filmmaker Award was presented to Monte Hellman . 2017 In 2017, the 11th annual festival was held from March 30 through April 8, 2017. The Dallas Shining Star Award was presented to Zoey Deutch ( Before I Fall ). A posthumous Dallas Star Award

1326-506: Was held from March 26 to April 2, 2009. Kathryn Bigelow was presented with the AFI DALLAS Star Award before a screening of her film, The Hurt Locker . Adrien Brody was presented with the AFI DALLAS Star Award prior to the screening of the Opening Night Gala film, The Brothers Bloom . Robert Towne received the AFI DALLAS Star Award at a presentation of the 35th anniversary of the film, Chinatown . 2010 In 2010,

1365-781: Was held from March 31 to April 10, 2011. Opening night was held at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in the AT&;T Performing Arts Center , a location in the Arts District of downtown Dallas . The festival was dedicated to founder and chairman emeritus Liener Temerlin. 2012 The 6th annual festival was held from April 12 through April 22, 2012. Dallas Star Award Recipients included award winning actress Laura Linney and Gabourey Sidibe and behind-the-scenes legends Glen Keane, Eric Pleskow and Bernie Pollack. A special tribute to RoboCop included star Peter Weller. 2013 In 2013,

1404-561: Was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dallas Film presented summer drive-in movie screening events in Dallas at Four Corners Brewing Company. Dallas Film and Ozarka also collaborated to present the first-ever Ozarka ® Brand Drive-In Film Festival events, held in Dallas, Austin and Houston in fall 2020. 2021 After the 2020 festival was postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Dallas International Film Festival returned under

1443-537: Was present to accept the Dallas Star Award. Director John Landis ( An American Werewolf in London , Coming to America , National Lampoon's Animal House , Blues Brothers ) was also present to accept the Dallas Star Award. Texas writer/producer/actor L.M. Kit Carson ( Paris, Texas and David Holzman's Diary ) was presented with a posthumous Dallas Star Award. 2016 The 10th annual festival

1482-443: Was presented to Bill Paxton . The L.M. Kit Carson Maverick Filmmaker Award was presented to David Gordon Green . 2018 The 12th annual festival was held from May 3 through May 10, 2018. In 2018, the festival screened more than 130 films from 22 countries, including several movies that were released nationwide later in the year: Eighth Grade , Won’t You Be My Neighbor , Dead Pigs , and Blindspotting . 2019 In 2019,

1521-643: Was presented to Lauren Bacall, Jack Valenti, David Lynch, Sidney Pollack, Marvin Hamlisch, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Sarah Polley and posthumously to Gregory Peck, who served as the first chairman of the AFI’s board. 2008 In 2008, the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival was held from March 27 to April 6, 2008. The Opening Night Gala film was Helen Hunt 's directorial debut film, Then She Found Me . The Closing Night Gala film

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